Vulnerability Note VU#788416

Computer Associates AntiVirus InoTask buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview

Computer Associates AntiVirus for the Enterprise and Threat Manager products contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that may be exploited by local users to execute code with elevated privileges.

I. Description

Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus v8 includes a component called InoTask. InoTask is used to schedule and lauch tasks and programs.

The InoTask process contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. By sending malformed data to the InoTask process, a user may be able to execute code with elevated privileges. Note that publicly available exploit code exists for this vulnerability.

II. Impact

A local user may be able to execute code with system privileges.

III. Solution

Upgrade

Computer Associates has released an update to address this vulnerability. This update is available as part of the automatic content update. See Computer Associates' secnotice050807 for more details.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Computer Associates	Vulnerable	11-May-2007

References

http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/antivirus/infodocs/caav-secnotice050807.asp
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=530
http://secunia.com/advisories/25202/
http://www.48bits.com/exploits/etrust.c

Credit

Thanks to iDefense for information that was used in this report. iDefense credits binagres for discovering this vulnerability.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

Date Public:	2007-05-11
Date First Published:	2007-05-11
Date Last Updated:	2007-06-20
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):	CVE-2007-2523
NVD-ID(s):	CVE-2007-2523
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	0.29
Document Revision:	15

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